La paura mangia l'anima

Fassbinder liked to push buttons; here, he pushes generational and racial ones. A German cleaning woman marries a much younger Moroccan guest worker she meets in a bar. Bigotry ensues, though maybe the couple's own issues would have sunk them anyway.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed La paura mangia l'anima in 1974. See Rainer Werner Fassbinder's full filmography, where to start with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, or where to go after you've seen everything by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

La paura mangia l'anima was released in 1974 (DE original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.